Reporter Fired For Caitlin Clark Tweets Speaks Out
Rachel DeMita, the popular basketball influencer, was let go from her sports broadcasting job with The Big3 over some Caitlin Clark tweets.
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Ice Cube's basketball league fired courtside commentator after DeMita, who played briefly at the collegiate level, tweeted about Caitlin Clark's return to the WNBA while covering a game for The Big3. Front Office Sports confirmed that DeMita was let go, with the "final straw" being her tweeting about Clark during a game.
DeMita, who has 279,000 followers on X and at least 1 million on Instagram, posted eight times over the course of last Saturday, when the Indiana Fever were taking on the New York Liberty. All eight of her posts involved Clark and her return from injury.
The Big3 reportedly told DeMita that they were 'dismayed and disappointed' by her social media posts about Clark while she was supposed to be covering one of their games.
Rachel DeMita speaks out.Rachel DeMita/X
DeMita, 35, addressed the firing in a social media post earlier this week.
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"The rumors are true. I was fired from The Big3. My team received an email at 11 p.m. on Tuesday with a letter that essentially said that I had been terminated," she said.
The Big3 told DeMita's team that she was caught tweeting about another league while performing services for their league. The Big3 said that she should have only been promoting league games while working as a sideline reporter.
"This is true. I did send out three tweets about the Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty game during The Big3 broadcast."
DeMita said that she didn't want to make any excuses, adding that she will 'take [the firing] on the chin.'
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The former college basketball player said that she was bummed by the abrupt firing. DeMita said that she didn't believe her tweets about Clark and the WNBA would do any damage to The Big3.
"I feel like something like this could've been easily nipped in the bud," she said.
"From my side, I know of nothing else as to why I was fired...from their side, I'm not sure."
Reporter Fired For Caitlin Clark Tweets Speaks Out first appeared on The Spun on Jun 22, 2025
This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jun 22, 2025, where it first appeared.
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